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Re: Pepper Bugs

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I have the same problem in a container with purple basil and pepprmint -
Could I just spray the plants and soil with ribbing alcohol or would that
kill the plant. It is a big container and the plants are pretty big to try
and q-tip them all-Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: Margaret Lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: Pepper Bugs


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> At 09:25 PM 7/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
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> >Help! There is some kind of bug on my pepper that migrated from one of my
> >Basil's. It looks like a white, flat, fluffy roly poly. Almost looks like
a
> >spot of mold, except that there appear to be legs and I think I saw it
move.
> >There are a bunch of them now on these 2 plants, mostly on the stems and
> >under the leaves. Not any noticeable damage except the basil is Purple
Ruffle
> >and now has mostly green leaves. There are 2 more green pepper plants
next to
> >the first one, and one is over 4 ft tall so I woud hate for this to
spread if
> >it damaging or deadly. I don't like to spray because I have aphids that
are
> >being devoured by lace wing flies and lady bugs. Any ideas, answers, or
> >suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >Thanks,
> >Laura in Pensacola
> >(Where the heat index has been way over 100 for weeks, but today was
finally
> >only in the mid 90s)
>
> Sounds like it might be mealybug scale. If it's a fairly small
infestation,
> dip a Q tip in rubbing alcohol and swab each of the white fluffs with it.
> Margaret L
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